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Evening gents,
I'm looking to get back into the hobby but before I drop money into the pit, I wanted to make sure there is a player base in my area. Thanks for your time!

NOVA has a pretty strong AoS scene.

Search NOVA: Games Workshop Games in Facebook and join up. I don’t partake because I’m in northern MD, but I follow their page and its pretty active.

Great thank you for the Intel. I'll check them out !!!

I think Huzzah Hobbies in Ashburn is a pretty strong local store. I don't know if the Ironfist League are still around since the Game Parlor in Chantilly closed. There's a Warhammer store in the Kentlands, MD; and there's Dream Wizards in Rockville, MD but I don't think there's much of an AoS scene there. No idea if there's anything in D.C. proper.

There's a group called the 13th Legion based out of Reiter's Books, a few blocks from Farragut West on the Orange/Silver/Blue lines. The Legion is mostly focused on 40k, but there are several AoS players on the Discord that arrange meetups and matches with each other.

Plenty of AoS at GW in Springfield.